Unable to read manga on a pc, light novels are OK
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@Fantasy_Buff
So far the best ebook reader I've tried for manga is Adobe Digital Editions.
It works with this title like a charm.
Understands that it's read right to left, two page spreads are in the proper order and seamless, just lovely.Sumatra PDF doesn't grasp that it goes from right to left; you can read one page at a time, but there isn't any way to make a double page spread come out correctly without really getting into the innards of it...and then undo your changes to deal with non-manga; not recommended for manga.
I could get Calibre 6.26 to open this title and read it, but couldn't figure out how to get it to do a two page display so no joy on two page spreads.
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@Fantasy_Buff If you're having issues with all manga instead of that one, I believe the arrow buttons that appear on the edges for novels do not show up on manga to flip the pages. If you want to change pages with manga, you need to change pages either with your mouse scroll wheel or the arrow keys on the keyboard.
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@jpwong said in Unable to read manga on a pc, light novels are OK:
@Fantasy_Buff If you're having issues with all manga instead of that one, I believe the arrow buttons that appear on the edges for novels do not show up on manga to flip the pages. If you want to change pages with manga, you need to change pages either with your mouse scroll wheel or the arrow keys on the keyboard.
Right; act like it's a webtoon, it's not being treated as a succession of separate images but rather one long strip of images, and you have to use the scrollbar to move down the volume.
Which is why I couldn't get it to do a two page spread, since it effectively treated it as one page of inordinate length.It was really strange to me.
It's been a long time since I actually used Calibre and I'm not sure I've used it for manga previously, but it's right at the bottom of my list for that purpose as a result of how it treated the file. -
@Geezer-Weasalopes
Thanks for your reply. I can also open the file but when I try the mouse wheel it does change page BUT the page gets reduced to a bit smaller than my thumb nail! I guess I will have to use another reader for my manga. I will continue to use Calbre as I use it to keep track of all of my light novels ( a total of 541 so far! ) and it works very well for my needs. -
@jpwong
Thanks for your suggestion. As I mentioned to Geezer Weasalopes the mouse wheel does change the page BUT the displayed page can be covered by a 5¢ piece on a 32" 1440p display! I am unable to get it larger. It does scroll though. I suspect that I will end up with the Adobe solution for my epub mangas. -
@Fantasy_Buff said in Unable to read manga on a pc, light novels are OK:
@jpwong
Thanks for your suggestion. As I mentioned to Geezer Weasalopes the mouse wheel does change the page BUT the displayed page can be covered by a 5¢ piece on a 32" 1440p display! I am unable to get it larger. It does scroll though. I suspect that I will end up with the Adobe solution for my epub mangas.Whoa.
That's a truly unusable image size!
I didn't have any problems with the size of the displayed image using Calibre on my system.
That may be a different issue entirely.
...the standard suggestions being making sure you've got the latest drivers, etc installed, but that sounds crazy bad and nothing I've a real clue concerning. -
@Fantasy_Buff Did you try the keyboard arrow keys? May be less idea, but the up/down or left/right keys should also change the pages.
What version of Calibre are you using? This could be an issue with a specific release, I know people here have all different versions installed due to different issues that impact their use of the program.
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I am having this problem with Calibre as well. I just bought Ascendence of a Bookworm (Manga) and tried to read it in Calibre reader. The first cover page displays fine, then trying to go to each individual page results in a tiny postage stamp. I can double-click this postage stamp and it enlarges the the actual image correctly, but this will be unbearably painful to read this way.
Is there any way to configure the Calibre reader to auto-size each page correctly?
Nevermind I figured it out. Right click on Calibre's reader, go to "Preferences" then "Page Layout". Under "Choose the page layout mode. In paged mode, the text is split up into individual pages, as in a paper book. In flow mode text is presented as one long scrolling page, as in web browsers." Set this "Flow Mode". Then it works great. For the 4k version it's still a bit frustrating as when I hit the page down/up buttons, it is lagging or I have to press it a few times for it to move forward a page, but at least it is a readable experience now. Note: the lagging occurs only in the 4k version of the epub. Desktop and mobile version do not have this issue for me. This is on a NVME SSD drive so I would think it would be fine, but it takes a second or two, sometimes longer to load each 4k page.
This fixed my problem. Hopefully it fixes others. I would suggest that jnovel club adds this to a Calibre FAQ section if it's not there already.
Cool Reader 3 unfortunately didn't work at all.
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@thinmintgnome As good as Calibre is at handling normal, reflowable ebooks, it's not very good at fixed page ones. I strongly suggest using mcomix on windows or the built in apple reader if you're on a mac instead.
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I never thought of using Calibre for manga, only for novels. It works sure, but there's so many dedicated comic apps that do the task a lot better(I'm currently on my laptop which only has Honeyview but even that gets the job done...).
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@exedore Ah thanks for the recommendation for MComix, I prefer using Comicrack for comics. Even though it's gone now, it's still the best in my opinion.
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I had the same problem as you.
Did you try this? Right click on Calibre's reader, go to "Preferences" then "Page Layout". Under "Choose the page layout mode. In paged mode, the text is split up into individual pages, as in a paper book. In flow mode text is presented as one long scrolling page, as in web browsers." Set this "Flow Mode". Then it works great. For the 4k version it's still a bit frustrating as when I hit the page down/up buttons, it is lagging or I have to press it a few times for it to move forward a page, but at least it is a readable experience now. Note: the lagging occurs only in the 4k version of the epub. Desktop and mobile version do not have this issue for me. This is on a NVME SSD drive so I would think it would be fine, but it takes a second or two, sometimes longer to load each 4k page.
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@thinmintgnome I think your problem is not an issue of how fast it can access the data, but that the application can't process the data fast enough when it's trying load the 4k images. So the bottleneck is probably the application's processing speed, not the storage throughput.
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@thinmintgnome said in Unable to read manga on a pc, light novels are OK:
I had the same problem as you.
Did you try this? Right click on Calibre's reader, go to "Preferences" then "Page Layout". Under "Choose the page layout mode. In paged mode, the text is split up into individual pages, as in a paper book. In flow mode text is presented as one long scrolling page, as in web browsers." Set this "Flow Mode". Then it works great. For the 4k version it's still a bit frustrating as when I hit the page down/up buttons, it is lagging or I have to press it a few times for it to move forward a page, but at least it is a readable experience now. Note: the lagging occurs only in the 4k version of the epub. Desktop and mobile version do not have this issue for me. This is on a NVME SSD drive so I would think it would be fine, but it takes a second or two, sometimes longer to load each 4k page.
This worked great, thanks. Something that wasn't immediately obvious: don't use the 'preferences' tab on the library page. Open the book, right click on a page of the book to get the 'preferences' needed here.
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Calibre is definitely not a good choice to read Manga with.
Personally, I use OpenComic on my Macbook. I like it because I can set each series to scroll left to right, right to left, or verticle (webtoon mode).
https://github.com/ollm/OpenComic
